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10/30/2026

Selling your house? The IRS cares less about your sale price than you'd think.

When you sell, you're taxed on your profit, not the price.

Your profit is your sale price, minus your selling costs, minus your cost basis.

Your basis is the running total of what you've put into the home. What you paid, certain closing costs, and every improvement, like a new roof or a kitchen remodel.

The higher your basis, the smaller your profit, and the smaller your tax bill.

If you bought recently, that total started on closing day. Fees like transfer taxes and title insurance count. Loan fees and points don't.

Keep your closing statement and every remodel receipt in one place for as long as you own the home.

Know someone who just closed on a house or is in the middle of a remodel? Send this to them.

10/29/2026

Caulk, weatherstripping, window film. All of it works, and all of it keeps something in.

The fall winterizing list is good advice. It's just only half a list, and the missing half is free.

One thing that didn't fit on the slides: if the air in the house is dry enough that your skin is cracking, check the humidity while you're at it. Between 30 and 50 percent is the range. Over 50 and you start inviting mold, which is a worse trade than dry hands.

Send this to whoever does the winterizing at your house.

10/28/2026

Same house, same buyer, same sale price. One seller still owes the IRS.

The difference is what each seller could prove they put into the house.

When you sell, you're taxed on your profit, and every improvement you can document lowers that profit.

In this example, $75,000 in documented work kept a single seller under the $250,000 exclusion. Without the receipts, the same sale landed $55,000 over it.

Some of what counts goes back to the day you bought. Fees from your purchase, like title insurance, transfer taxes, and recording fees, add to your basis too. Your closing statement already lists them.

Know someone in the middle of a remodel? Send this to them.

10/28/2026

Your house went up in value. Here's how to keep it from the IRS.

If the home has been your main residence for at least two of the last five years, you can exclude up to $250,000 of profit from tax when you sell. Married couples filing jointly can exclude up to $500,000.

The key word is profit, not sale price. Your profit is your sale price, minus your selling costs, minus your cost basis.

Your basis starts with what you paid for the home, plus certain closing costs like title insurance and transfer taxes. Every improvement you make adds to it: a new roof, a kitchen remodel, an addition.

The higher your basis, the lower your profit, and the easier it is to stay under that line. You do have to be able to prove those improvements, so keep the invoices for as long as you own the home.

Your CPA can tell you exactly where your numbers land.

Save this for when you're ready to sell.

10/27/2026

The Salt Lake fall season is posted. These are the five I'd start with.

🎭 Ballet West - Works from Within is the program built from choreography made inside the company.
🎭 Utah Symphony - Plaza festivities with local vendors and live music before the show.
🎭 Pioneer Theatre Company - A new play, a musical and a comedy in the space of three months.
🎭 The Parker Theatre - A 200-seat Art Deco playhouse with a soda fountain still in the lobby.
🎭 Utah Museum of Fine Arts - Compact and quiet, on the university campus, free on some days.

Don't put off buying tickets, especially for the short-run shows.

Send this to whoever you'd want in the next seat.

10/26/2026

What are you ordering in Salt Lake on the first genuinely cold morning of the year?

Half the reason I keep a list like this is for the afternoons I need somewhere to sit with a laptop for an hour, or somewhere to meet someone that isn't a restaurant.

• - Part of every sale goes to animal charities.
• Honeysuckle Coffee Co. - The pastry case rotates with the season, and weekends fill up fast.
• .coffee - It started as a mobile coffee cart before this West Jordan shop opened.
• - They roast their own coffee, and breakfast tacos are on the menu.
• - The drink menu is big enough to try something new every visit.
• - Local makers sell their merchandise right inside the shop.

Send this to someone you want to enjoy a fall drink with.

10/24/2026

If the house feels stuffy no matter what you do, you've been solving the wrong problem.

Cleaning takes dust off the surfaces you can reach. The stuffiness isn't on a surface.

Once the windows are shut for the season, your furnace is the only thing moving air in the house, and it moves the same air every time. Carbon dioxide, cooking fumes, whatever comes off your cleaning products. It all stays in here with you until spring, and no amount of wiping counters touches it.

Two things actually change it, and neither one costs you heat.

Run your kitchen and bathroom exhaust fans all the way through when you cook or shower. They vent outside. Most people use them for smoke and steam and nothing else.

Then on the next mild day, crack a couple of windows on opposite sides of the house for five or ten minutes and let the air move through.

DM me and I'll send you the filter rating and swap schedule that goes with this, so the air has somewhere to go and something catching what's in it.

10/23/2026

I went through what's opening in Salt Lake this fall and pulled out five of them.

Most of these posted their whole season back in September, which is why it's easy to miss.

🎭 Ballet West
🎭 Utah Symphony
🎭 Pioneer Theatre Company
🎭 The Parker Theatre
🎭 Utah Museum of Fine Arts

And if you're bringing kids, check whether the company sells a family or season package before you buy seats one at a time.

Send this to your fellow arts and culture lover.

10/22/2026

🏡 NEW TO THE MARKET 🏡

📍 10358 Morgan Blvd #409, Cedar Hills, UT 84062
🛏️ 3 bedrooms
🛁 3 bathrooms
📏 2,212 square feet
💰 $429,900

A well-maintained townhome in Cedar Hills with scenic valley views, in great condition and ready to enjoy as-is or update to your own style.

✨ Functional floor plan with comfortable living spaces
✨ Abundant natural light
✨ Basement with room to grow
✨ Spacious 2-car garage
✨ Easy access to Timpanogos
✨ Close to outdoor recreation
✨ Near shopping and dining
✨ Quick access to major commuter routes

10/22/2026

Most families end up guessing at what you wanted for the house in the week after a funeral.

Not because you didn't plan. Because a will only answers one question.

The house is the one that causes the most trouble. Every other asset gets divided. A house has to be kept or sold, and somebody has to decide which one.

Say why, too. If one kid gets the house and the others don't, or the split isn't even, tell them the reason while you're still here to give it.

If you're not sure how your property is titled, send me a message. I can't give you legal advice, but I can go through the deed with you and point you toward an estate attorney.

Address

1265 E. Fort Union Boulevard Suite 300
Cottonwood Heights, UT
84047

Telephone

+18016378419

Website

http://www.ashleylindseyhomes.com/

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